Reading tonight with David Joy and R Dean Johnson at the world-famous Apollo Pizza in beautiful downtown Richmond, Kentucky. Joy is a North Carolinian with a hot new novel about love and drugs called Where All Light Tends to Go and R Dean teaches writing at Eastern Kentucky University and has a new book called Delicate Men, a topic of endless interest to many of us. 8 pm, baby. Beer, books, fried ravioli. Killer pizza. Ale-8 and craft brew galore on tap. All on a flipping Thursday. Crazy.

I'll be doing a reading with heavy hitters David Joy and R. Dean Johnson at the legendary Apollo Pizza in Richmond, Kentucky on April 30th in Richmond, Kentucky. The event is Chapter 4 of the Pages & Pints series and starts at 8 pm. The Facebook page for the event may be found here.

Michael Ray Taylor has written a blush-inducing review of Trampolinefor Chapter 16: A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers, and Passersby. It ends like this: "Trampoline is a truly new sort of novel, one in which the masterful prose and intimate drawings work together to tell a powerful story. In Gipe’s hands, Jewell’s voice is musical and honest, her language and syntax brooking no nonsense and yet capturing the beauty and nuance of mountain life that others around her miss. Trampoline is a new American masterpiece." In response, I would just say thank you, and that it is humbling when people like what you've done better than you do.

I have a piece of writing from the novel I'm working on now in the Spring 2015 issue of Hidden City Quarterly, a dandy online journal published out of Baltimore, MD. The piece is called "One Good Reason," and takes place in the trunk of a Pontiac Bonneville. Thanks Hidden City for publishing it.

"Simona Taking A Shower Under A Dragon's Wing," one of several works of art by Carabella Sands in the Spring 2015 issue of Hidden City Quarterly.

The Pikeville Review's new issue includes literary dazzle from the likes of Melissa Helton, Larry Thacker, Marianne Worthington, Savannah Sipple, Misty Marie Rae Staggs, Elizabeth Glass, Thomas Alan Holmes, Wes Browne as well as a host of other worthies. It also has an excerpt from the novel I'm working on now. The piece in The Pikeville Review is called "Dopesick."